Quotes About Achievement

My self-belief, really is what kept me going, I always believed I could be a great champion, a world champion.

If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.

I'm proud of what my brother has done. His success motivates me. He's a world champion.

I'm a grown man, a professional, and a world champion.

The idea of being a two-time world champion is a big goal for me.

By 2012 I'm going to be a world champion or knocking on the door for a world title.

I have been a world champion, I have climbed that mountain.

I go from unranked to world champion in one year.

I was 25 years old, a world champion.

I just want to play well, be a good world champion and reach some TV major finals, pick up some trophies, but just be a good world champion and hopefully pick up some more majors.

Every player dreams of winning the World Cup, and there are very few who are fortunate enough to actually do it.

Every player's dream is to play Champions League and the World Cup.

To go to a World Cup is a dream come true, and I can claim to have experienced that four times.

When we left Mumbai to play in the World Cup there were hardly any journalists to see us off. But when we returned to India on July 25 having made the final, there were close to a hundred journalists at 2.30 in the morning. It was totally new.

The World Cup is a tough tournament.

The first time I watched a World Cup game was in 2002. That was the first time Senegal had ever qualified for the World Cup, and it was great moment that I will never forget in my life. I was ten years old at the time, and that experience of watching my country in a World Cup is what inspired me to become a footballer.

I've always said the World Cup is a dream for any player.

When I am an old man, I will tell my grandchildren bedtime stories about when I won the Champions League, hopefully when I won the World Cup, but most of all, I will tell them that their grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi.

Everyone wants to be a part of the World Cup and to play for the country.

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.

You cannot compare warm-ups with World Cup games.

The World Cup is the ultimate moment for any player. It is the opportunity to defend your country in the biggest tournament in the world and the moment the whole world will watch you play.

To win the World Cup in our colours was beyond my dreams and something I will never, ever forget.

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.